Saturday, August 04, 2007

Nightingale composition (premiere in 2008)

A Project plan for a festival in 2008

My Nightingale digital composition will be ca. 10-15 min long,it is a new composition, so the work will be premiered atthe festival. The work will be based on sounds ofnightingales, real (natural) and digitally alienated. The second layerof the work is live electronic part. At the concert I will completethe texture of the work by playing live with my digital instrumentsand sound processors: on the stage I'll manipulate the bird sounds inreal-time, sample the sounds live and play the bird fragments back inalienated form. I'll create contradicting lines as well as imitate thebirds and create conversations with them by using similar kind ofsound colours and noises as nightingales. I'll mainly recycle the birdsounds, so my live sounds are mostly based, one way or the other, onthe sounds of nightingales.

My concert performance is solo performance.Concerning my equipments, I already have all my personal digitalinstruments and stage mixer, so there is no need to arrange or rentanything special for me. Perhaps this info is not needed yet, butconcerning my stage set-up and sound, I'll need 4 lines (2 x stereo)from the main mixer, and on the stage there should be chair for me andtable for my digital equipments. So my set-up is very easy to arrange.Good monitoring on the stage would be nice, as well as at least 0.5hour long soundcheck time with sound man of the concert, and I preferdim light in the hall during my performance.

BUT, here comes my second idea, Plan no 2:- if there is possibility to do something more, I could collaboratewith Finnish video artist Sami van Ingen and he could visualize mymusic and create nightingale video work on my composition. Then wecould perform music and video together at the concert. In this casewe'll also need video projector and screen (perhaps some culturalorganization could borrow these?). My solo is fine, butif we like to add this kind of extra dimension in the nightingaleproject, we could do it easily. I have done many concerts with Sami,so technically and socially it is nothing new for us. But ifthe video screening will make our life too problematic at the concertand the equipments (projector+screen) are too difficult to arrange, Icould always make solo performance and stay on sound...

Also: I am ready to participate if there is any kind of collectiveperformance arranged at the end of this concert or during thefestival. Perhaps Sonera or Elisa or Saunalahti mobile phone /Internet company could transfer live sound from a forest to theconcert stage, where we improvise together and could playwith the real-time sounds of that forest and its birds... who knows,perhaps some of the companies will like the idea...!!